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Arto Rantala writes "After seven years of production, Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning, the Finnish Star Trek / Babylon 5 parody movie, was finally released on DVD a month ago and is now available for download. In spite of its practically zero budget, the film has a hilariously captivating story, top notch CGI and even a couple of performances from professional actors. Download it now and buy the DVD if you like it! I know I did. You can also obtain it directly from the .torrent"

dj_whitebread writes "Have you ever wanted to write in the Elvish script? Now's your chance to have your Elvish text look just like Tolkien's. This page gives you all the instructions. The typographer in me has to respect these guy's efforts!"

fabbe writes "The HTTP 1.1 protocol has been approved by the W3C and IETF. CNET article is here. " Both bodies apparently showed ruthless efficiency getting these standards out there... speeds that make even glaciers jealous.

Clive Turvey has continued his investigation into KNI, and has documented the instructions he has found so far. MMX coders will be happy to see that KNI contains a 1-cycle shuffle instruction, like Altivec does, but unlike MMX. As expected it has some instructions specifically for 3D (1/x and 1/sqrt(x)). Update: 02/24 12:11 by S : As reader Christopher Thomas points out, Intel has released a manual that includes a functional description of KNI. But I can't find any instruction timings in it. It weighs a hefty 5.5Mb.

Arto Stimms sent us a rather nice compilation of facts and tidbits about the G4 processor, aka Max. Main features: Altivec, MERSI SMP, 2Mb L2, and a 128 bit data path running at 100Mhz. At 1.8 Volts, a 400Mhz G4 will only consume 8 Watts.

Arto Stimms sent us a rather nice compilation of facts and tidbits about the G4 processor, aka Max. Main features: Altivec, MERSI SMP, 2Mb L2, and a 128 bit data path running at 100Mhz. At 1.8 Volts, a 400Mhz G4 will only consume 8 Watts.